Free-Motion Quilting with Angela Walters

August 5, 2012

I picked up a couple of books last week. One of them was Free-Motion Quilting with Angela Walters. I had been thinking about getting this book ever since it came out (Angela is widely known in the quilting community as being an AMAZING quilter), but I wasn’t quite sure what it was all about and if I needed it. I noticed a few other bloggers were being inspired to try new free motion quilting designs after getting the book and decided to see what it was all about.

I have many quilt books I like, many I love. I mostly use them for inspiration. This is one of the few books I can honestly say needs to be in your quilt book library. (And no, I wasn’t paid or asked to say that. :))

Angela provides detailed, step by step instruction on how to make a huge variety of free motion quilting designs. She breaks them down so well that even a novice can figure out what to do.

As soon as I opened the book and started to absorb how much awesome information was in there, I dropped all my current projects, ran to my sewing room, and made some quilt sandwiches. I needed to try everything immediately!

Obviously I have more work to do, but this is my first try and it’s not horrible. I am particularly desperate to perfect some of the swirl designs.

Now Angela is a long arm quilter, but these designs can be done on a home sewing machine as long as you are set up for free motion quilting.

I had made a few quilting sample sandwiches several months ago to practice different types of quilting…

And now I plan to make a sandwich for my favorite designs from Angela’s book as well.

Comments

I love the purple and orange samples you made! I’ll have to file those away to try.

I’m so scared of FMQ, and have every intention of trying it, but working my way around a space while making designs does not come naturally to my decidedly non-spatially-inclined brain! I’ll have to check out this book– sounds like it might be a good way to practice some different ideas and maybe–one day– put them on a quilt! 🙂

I am fairly new at fmq, and even though I’ve tried several patterns I’ve seed on blogs etc., Angela’s book gives such clear instructions, I know I will be confident to try much more. Seriously – it is really an awesome book for anyone who wants to gain skills in fmq. Love your samples, Faith – great idea.

Oh, you ENABLER, you!! This book is already on my Amazon wish list. If I keep buying quilting books, I’m going to have to get rid of FABRIC to make room for BOOK SHELVES! I do love Angela Walter’s quilting, though, and the tutorial she posted on SewCalGal’s blog challenge was wonderful. So now I’m ordering the book, and I’m telling my husband that YOU made me do it. Don’t worry; he doesn’t know where you live… 😉

I pre-ordered this book before it was published, and I have thoroughly enjoyed it! Angela did such a great job explaining everything and giving excellent photos and mark-ups. It is definitely a Must-Have book for any quilter!

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